[R-pkg-devel] Fwd: Re-creating vignettes after update of data or different mechanism to create reports?

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From: Rainer Krug <Rainer at krugs.de>
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Re-creating vignettes after update of data or

different mechanism to create reports?

Date: 11 May 2017 at 14:41:03 GMT+2
To: Holger Hoefling <hhoeflin at gmail.com>

On 11 May 2017, at 14:35, Holger Hoefling <hhoeflin at gmail.com <mailto:

hhoeflin at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi Rainer,

could you elaborate a little more on why you split this into two

packages in the first place? If you all kept it in one, you would have to
update this package regularly - but rebuilding the vignette would not be a
problem.

As you designed it with 2 packages - you also have to update the data

package regularly.

I guess I just don't understand what you gain by splitting the packages.

I am aware that I wouldn?t have this problem with a single package, but

there are some reasons why I would like to keep them separate (see below):

1) The dataset will be huge. So combining it with the analysis package

is not a good idea in case that the analysis package needs to be updated
and the data package stays the same.

2) I like the separation between data package and analysis package - it

is cleaner

3) The data is not (but will hopefully be sometime later) public. So we

can have two versions of the data package: one for internal usage, and one
witch dummy data which can be made publicly available, as we want to make
the code of the analysis public.

Hope this explains why I want to keep them separate,

Rainer

Best

Holger

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Rainer Krug <Rainer at krugs.de <mailto:

Rainer at krugs.de>> wrote:

Hi

I am building two packages:

- a data package which contains the data and function to extract it

(several datasets, linked, like an sql database) and

- an analysis package which contains functions to analyse the data in

the data package and depends on the data package.

The data package is updated often as the data is updated regularly,

while the analysis package will (hopefully) be more static.

Now I created a report which I put in the vignette of the analysis

package, which works nicely and the report is created when the analysis
package is installed, but when the data package is updated, the user has to
re-install the analysis package to re-create the report (vignette) of the
updated dataset.

I know that I am abusing the vignette, but it works nicely.

My question:  Is there a way of re-creating the vignette by a user

after they installed a newer version of the data package, or is there a
better way of creating the report(s)?

Thanks,

Rainer

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